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Samson Kambalu (born 1975) is a Malawi-born artist and author who trained as a fine artist and ethnomusicologist at the University of Malawi's Chancellor College. == Life and work == Samson Kambalu was born in Malawi, where he attended Kamuzu Academy, the so-called "Eton of Africa".〔Kamuzu_Academy〕 He graduated from the University of Malawi's Chancellor College, Zomba in 1999. Kambalu completed his MA in Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University in 2003 and a PhD at Chelsea College of Art and Design from 2011 – 15. Kambalu’s work originates from the Protestant tradition of inquiry, criticism, and rebellion that he inherited from a rapidly Christianising contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa of his childhood. Manifesting in various media, from drawing, painting, installation, video to literature and performance the work playfully employs excess, transgression, humour and wit to test the boundaries of received ideas regarding history, art, identity, religion and individual freedom. The most well known of his artworks is ''Holy Ball'', a football plastered in pages of the Bible. Kambalu held an exhibition of 24 "Holy Balls" at Chancellor College in 2000 at which he invited the visitors to “exercise and exorcise”.〔(Virtual Museum of Contemporary African Art )〕 He has since shown his work internationally. His first book, an autobiographical narrative entitled ''The Jive Talker or How to Get a British Passport'', was published by Jonathan Cape (Random House) in July 2008, and in August 2008 by Free Press (Simon & Schuster).〔(Bookforum Review )〕 Kambalu lives and works in London. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Samson Kambalu」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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